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cn coin 6303

Aparține de tip

CN Type 10741 🔍

Atelier monetar
Philippopolis 🔍  

Region: Thrace  

Tipologie

Datare

197-217 AD

Roman Imperial Period 🔍

Avers
Legendă
Legendă obverse ΑVΤ Κ Μ ΑVΡΗ - Α{Ν}ΤΩ{Ν}Ι{Ν}ΟϹ
Descriere
Laureate bust of bearded Caracalla, left, seen from front, wearing cuirass and paludamentum, spear in background and frontal shield in right arm decorated with gorgoneion. Border of dots.
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Revers
Legendă
Legendă reverse ΜΗΤΡΟ ΦΙΛΙΠΠΟΠΟ//ΛΕΟϹ
Descriere
Heracles reclining left on back of a lion advancing right, holding cantharus? in right hand and club in left hand.
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Persoană

Sitter: Caracalla 🔍  

Metrology
Nominal
5 unit 🔍  
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diametru
30 mm
Greutate
18.00 g
Axă
6
Proprietar

commerce / im Handel, ,

Provenienţă: CNG, eAuction 360, 15.09.2015, 238, ex CNG 60, 22.05.2002, 1217.

Comentariu public

In the CNG auction catalogue the coin is described as Heracles with cantharus (?); Varbanov describes the coin type as Heracles holding apples.

Referinţă

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values III Band 3, Thrace (from Perinthus to Trajanopolis), 2007 nr. 1512  ❐

Literatură

Varbanov, The Coinage of Philippopolis. Vol. II Catalogue 2, Bourgas 2019 p. 318 ❐

Varbanov, The Coinage of Philippopolis. Vol. II Catalogue 2, Bourgas 2019 p. 318, nr. XV.34.3.2 ❐

Varbanov, Greek Imperial Coins and their Values III Band 3, Thrace (from Perinthus to Trajanopolis), 2007 p. 175, nr. 1509 ❐

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cn coin 6303, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_6303 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/19]

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